Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have only had three chair designs in the past 400 years. Here’s the latest. “After spending a day at the library it became apparent there are some pretty unusual ...

The Association of American University Presses holds its annual meeting this week in Salt Lake City, so this may seem like a perverse moment to be thinking about libraries as publishers. Although it ...

One titillating, new library collection has the whole world watching. The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library exhibit, Story of Phi: Restricted Books, displays a collection of "obscene" literature ...

This year marks five centuries since the death of Aldus Manutius, an Italian humanist who forever changed the direction of publishing, and got in one of its first copyright squabbles. Aldus was a ...

(RNS) The project brings rare and priceless religious and cultural collections to a global audience for the first time in history. CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Two of the world’s great libraries — the ...

A British philanthropist has given $2.2-million to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries to expand efforts to digitize their vast collection of books and manuscripts. The gift, by the ...

Claimed to be one of the oldest libraries in Europe and ranked as the top library in England by Tripadvisor 2023, the Bodleian Library in Oxford opened to scholars in 1602. Since opening it has ...

Where can you find locks of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s and Mary Shelley’s hair alongside the fragments of Sappho’s poetry? At the Bodleain Libraries in Oxford, England. And also in the book “Marks of ...

Ambitious plans to redevelop the Bodleian Library in Oxford will have to be put on hold if its new book depository does not get the go-ahead. Last week, Julian Blackwell, president of Blackwell's, ...

ANOTHER chapter has been completed in the Bodleian Library’s multi-million-pound plans to upgrade its Oxford facilities. In 2008, the world-famous library was blocked by the city council in its bid to ...

Libraries really are the gates to the future. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information, culture or wisdom. Libraries really are the gates to the future. If you do not value ...

A public inquiry has ruled against Oxford University's plans for its world-famous Bodleian Library. The university, which hoped to build a £29m depository at Osney Mead to house eight million books, ...